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From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
To: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, mst@redhat.com, famz@redhat.com,
	amit@kernel.org, eblake@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for 3.1 2/4] virtio: Check qemu_get_virtqueue_element returns
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 11:30:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180717103042.GA9927@stefanha-x1.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180716173743.133393-3-dgilbert@redhat.com>

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On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 06:37:41PM +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git) wrote:
> From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
> 
> Check calls to qemu_get_virtqueue_element for NULL and pass
> up the chain.

What happens to the device state that has been partially deserialized
(e.g. virtio-blk's s->rq linked list)?

It's not clear to me that simply returning NULL is enough to put QEMU
into a sane state without memory leaks or crashes if we decide to retry.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-07-17 10:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-16 17:37 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for 3.1 0/4] virtio migration load path Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2018-07-16 17:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for 3.1 1/4] scsi/migration: Allow bus load request to fail Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2018-07-17  9:08   ` Cornelia Huck
2018-07-16 17:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for 3.1 2/4] virtio: Check qemu_get_virtqueue_element returns Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2018-07-17  9:11   ` Cornelia Huck
2018-07-17 10:30   ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]
2018-07-16 17:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for 3.1 3/4] virtio-scsi/migration: Allow load_request to fail Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2018-07-17  9:13   ` Cornelia Huck
2018-07-16 17:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for 3.1 4/4] virtio: qemu_get_virtqueue_element fail rather than assert Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2018-07-17  9:16   ` Cornelia Huck

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